I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

You can need someone you don't love. You can't love someone you don't need. Consequently, you can be with someone you don't love because you need the person. But you can't be with someone you don't...

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect. Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

Very clever but dumb at shooting... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!

Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies.

... but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

What this all goes to show is that nonsense remains nonsense, even when talked by world-famous scientists. What serves to obscure the illogicality of such statements is the fact that they are made by...

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas, is reflected even in logic: an ideally rational progression...

Language disguises thought.

I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I'll make take him for a driving lesson tomorrow."Dad backed away from the counter. Ash...

But still, Ayumi said, it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.You may be right, Aomame said, But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if...

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.